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THE FIRST BOOK OF MOSES CALLED<br/>
<span class=large>GENESIS</span>
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CHAPTER 6
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Sons of God marry daughters of men—Men turn to wickedness; earth is filled with violence; all flesh is corrupted—The flood promised—God establishes his covenant with Noah, who builds an ark to save his family and divers living things.
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And</span> it came to pass, when men began to multiply on the face of the earth, and daughters were born unto them,
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That the <sup>a</sup><a href="gen/6/2a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG Sons and Daughters of God.">sons</a> of God saw the daughters of men that they <i>were</i> fair; and they <sup>b</sup><a href="gen/6/2b" mark="b" type="B" title="TG Marriage, Temporal.">took</a> them <sup>c</sup><a href="gen/6/2c" mark="c" type="B" title="TG Marriage; TG Marriage, Interfaith.">wives</a> of all which they chose.
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And the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> said, My <sup>a</sup><a href="gen/6/3a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG God, Spirit of; TG Holy Ghost, Loss of.">spirit</a> shall not always <sup>b</sup><a href="gen/6/3b" mark="b" type="B" title="TG God, Access to.">strive</a> with man, for that he also <i>is</i> <sup>c</sup><a href="gen/6/3c" mark="c" type="A" title="2 Ne. 9: 4 (4-8); Mosiah 15: 7; Moses 8: 17.">flesh</a>: yet his days shall be an hundred and twenty years.
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There were <sup>a</sup><a href="gen/6/4a" mark="a" type="A" title="Gen. 14: 5; Num. 13: 33; Deut. 3: 11; Moses 8: 18 (18-21).">giants</a> in the earth in those days; and also after that, when the sons of God came in unto the daughters of men, and they bare <i>children</i> to them, the same <i>became</i> mighty men which <i>were</i> of old, men of renown.
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&#182; And <span class='smallcaps'>God</span> saw that the <sup>a</sup><a href="gen/6/5a" mark="a" type="A" title="Ps. 14: 1; 3 Ne. 9: 9; Morm. 4: 12 (10-12); D&C 10: 21 (20-23); D&C 112: 23; Moses 7: 36 (36-37); Moses 8: 22 (22, 28-30).">wickedness</a> of man <i>was</i> great in the earth, and <i>that</i> <sup>b</sup><a href="gen/6/5b" mark="b" type="A" title="Matt. 15: 19; Heb. 3: 12; Alma 12: 14 (3, 7, 14); Hel. 12: 4; D&C 124: 99; Moses 8: 22.">every</a> imagination of the <sup>c</sup><a href="gen/6/5c" mark="c" type="C" title="Gen. 8: 21; TG God, Omniscience of; TG Motivations.">thoughts</a> of his <sup>d</sup><a href="gen/6/5d" mark="d" type="B" title="TG Heart.">heart</a> <i>was</i> only <sup>e</sup><a href="gen/6/5e" mark="e" type="B" title="TG Evil.">evil</a> continually.
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And it <sup>a</sup><a href="gen/6/6a" mark="a" type="E" title="The Heb. root means ‘to be sorry,’ ‘moved to pity,’ ‘have compassion.’; Ex. 32: 12, 14; 1 Sam. 15: 11; 2 Sam. 24: 16; Joel 2: 13; Amos 7: 3 (3, 6); 3 Ne. 27: 32; Moses 8: 25.">repented</a> the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> that he had made man on the earth, and it <sup>b</sup><a href="gen/6/6b" mark="b" type="A" title="Eph. 4: 30; 1 Ne. 2: 18; Alma 31: 24; 3 Ne. 7: 16; Moses 8: 25.">grieved</a> him at his heart.
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And the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> said, I will <sup>a</sup><a href="gen/6/7a" mark="a" type="A" title="Gen. 7: 23; Alma 10: 22 (22-23).">destroy</a> man whom I have created from the face of the earth; both man, and beast, and the creeping thing, and the fowls of the air; for it repenteth me that I have made them.
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But Noah found <sup>a</sup><a href="gen/6/8a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG Grace.">grace</a> in the eyes of the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span>.
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&#182; These <i>are</i> the <sup>a</sup><a href="gen/6/9a" mark="a" type="D" title="IE genealogical lines.">generations</a> of Noah: <sup>b</sup><a href="gen/6/9b" mark="b" type="A" title="Ezek. 14: 14.">Noah</a> was a just man <i>and</i> <sup>c</sup><a href="gen/6/9c" mark="c" type="S" title="HEB complete, whole, having integrity; D&C 129: 3 (3, 6); Moses 8: 27; TG Integrity; TG Perfection.">perfect</a> in his generations, <i>and</i> Noah <sup>d</sup><a href="gen/6/9d" mark="d" type="B" title="TG Walking with God.">walked</a> with God.
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And Noah begat three sons, Shem, Ham, and Japheth.
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The earth also was <sup>a</sup><a href="gen/6/11a" mark="a" type="C" title="Ex. 32: 7; Deut. 4: 16 (14-19); D&C 10: 21; D&C 112: 23; Moses 8: 28 (28-30); TG Pollution.">corrupt</a> before God, and the earth was filled with <sup>b</sup><a href="gen/6/11b" mark="b" type="A" title="D&C 88: 18; Moses 7: 33 (32-34); Moses 8: 28 (28-30).">violence</a>.
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And God looked upon the earth, and, behold, it was corrupt; for all <sup>a</sup><a href="gen/6/12a" mark="a" type="A" title="D&C 38: 11.">flesh</a> had corrupted his <sup>b</sup><a href="gen/6/12b" mark="b" type="A" title="2 Ne. 28: 11; Hel. 6: 31; D&C 1: 16; D&C 82: 6; D&C 132: 25 (22-25); Moses 8: 29.">way</a> upon the earth.
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And God said unto Noah, The end of all flesh is come before me; for the earth is filled with <sup>a</sup><a href="gen/6/13a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG War.">violence</a> through them; and, behold, I will <sup>b</sup><a href="gen/6/13b" mark="b" type="A" title="1 Ne. 17: 31; 2 Ne. 1: 17; Mosiah 12: 8; 3 Ne. 9: 9; D&C 56: 3; D&C 64: 35; Moses 8: 30 (26, 30).">destroy</a> them <sup>c</sup><a href="gen/6/13c" mark="c" type="D" title="Some Heb. MSS.: from the earth.">with</a> the earth.
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&#182; Make thee an <sup>a</sup><a href="gen/6/14a" mark="a" type="A" title="Ether 6: 7 (6-8); Moses 7: 43.">ark</a> of gopher wood; <sup>b</sup><a href="gen/6/14b" mark="b" type="P" title="HEB ‘nests,’ compartments.">rooms</a> shalt thou make in the ark, and shalt pitch it within and without with pitch.
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And this <i>is the fashion</i> which thou shalt make it <i>of:</i> The length of the ark <i>shall be</i> three hundred cubits, the breadth of it fifty cubits, and the height of it thirty cubits.
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A <sup>a</sup><a href="gen/6/16a" mark="a" type="Q" title="HEB tsohar; some rabbis believed it was a precious stone that shone in the ark; Ether 2: 23 (23-24).">window</a> shalt thou make to the ark, and in a cubit shalt thou finish it above; and the door of the ark shalt thou set in the side thereof; <i>with</i> lower, second, and third <i>stories</i> shalt thou make it.
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And, behold, I, even I, do bring a <sup>a</sup><a href="gen/6/17a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG Flood.">flood</a> of <sup>b</sup><a href="gen/6/17b" mark="b" type="B" title="TG Earth, Cleansing of.">waters</a> upon the earth, to destroy all flesh, wherein <i>is</i> the <sup>c</sup><a href="gen/6/17c" mark="c" type="A" title="2 Ne. 9: 26; Mosiah 2: 21.">breath</a> of life, from under heaven; <i>and</i> every thing that <i>is</i> in the earth shall die.
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But with thee will I establish <sup>a</sup><a href="gen/6/18a" mark="a" type="H" title="JST Gen. 8: 23  . . .  my covenant, even as I have sworn unto thy father, Enoch, that of thy posterity shall come all nations; and thou  . . .">my</a> <sup>b</sup><a href="gen/6/18b" mark="b" type="A" title="Gen. 9: 9 (9, 12).">covenant</a>; and thou shalt come into the ark, thou, and thy sons, and thy wife, and thy sons’ wives with thee.
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And of every living thing of all flesh, two of every <i>sort</i> shalt thou bring into the ark, to keep <i>them</i> alive with thee; they shall be male and female.
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Of fowls after their kind, and of cattle after their kind, of every creeping thing of the earth after his kind, two of every <i>sort</i> shall come unto thee, to keep <i>them</i> alive.
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And take thou unto thee of all food that is eaten, and thou shalt gather <i>it</i> to thee; and it shall be for <sup>a</sup><a href="gen/6/21a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG Food.">food</a> for thee, and for them.
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Thus <sup>a</sup><a href="gen/6/22a" mark="a" type="C" title="Gen. 7: 5; Moses 7: 43; TG Obedience.">did</a> <sup>b</sup><a href="gen/6/22b" mark="b" type="A" title="Heb. 11: 7.">Noah</a>; according to all that God <sup>c</sup><a href="gen/6/22c" mark="c" type="B" title="TG Commandments of God.">commanded</a> him, so did he.
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